[124] Histoire de la Guerre de Sept Ans, par Frédéric II.
[125] “The loss of his Wilhelmina, had there been no other grief, has darkened all his life to Frederick. Readers are not prepared for the details of grief we could give, and the settled gloom of mind they indicate. A loss irreparable and immeasurable; the light of life, the one heart that loved him, gone. All winter he dwells internally on the sad matter, though soon falling silent on it to others.”—Carlyle, vol. v., p. 318.
[126] Carlyle, vol. v., p. 314.
[127] Œuvres de Frédéric, t. xix., p. 56.
[128] Mémoires pour servir à la Vie de M. De Voltaire, Ecrit par Lui-même.
[129] The Duchess of Pompadour.
[130] Œuvres de Frédéric, t. xxiii., p. 53.
[131] Histoire de la Guerre de Sept Ans, par Frédéric II.
[132] General Haddick was in command of an Austrian force marching to join the Russians. Frederick had surprised one of his detachments.
[133] General Finck, one of the most efficient of Frederick’s generals, to whom we shall often hereafter refer.